/ world today news/ I have written many times about how foreign capital conquered Ukraine, long before the start of the SVO.
After February 24, 2022, the US and its allies actually started a war against Russia, using “Nezalezhnaya” as a springboard.
On the territory of Ukraine there are the richest reserves of minerals (more than 90 percent of the reserves were explored and discovered during the Soviet era). Ukraine has the 7th largest coal reserves in the world and 2nd in Europe – about 34 billion tons. It is one of the three countries (along with Australia and Russia) with the largest deposits of iron ore in the world.
Until last year, it was among the top ten manganese ore producers in the world and has the largest manganese ore reserves in Europe. It also has the largest titanium reserves in Europe (about 20% of the world’s titanium ore reserves in terms of pure titanium).
Ukraine has the largest uranium deposit in Europe (1.8% of the world’s uranium reserves). 70% of the world’s reserves of high-quality granite are concentrated in Ukraine. Other significant mineral resources are mercury, potassium salt, nickel, sulphur, graphite, gold. Plus: 40% of the world’s chernozem reserves, unique mineral and thermal waters.
For three decades, foreign capital has taken over the natural resources of “independent and independent Ukraine”. Agricultural land was no exception. According to the Australian National Review, published in May last year, 17 million hectares of Ukrainian agricultural land were owned by three American companies: Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto, which is roughly equal to the area of all agricultural land in Italy.
Experts estimated that the designated area is about half of the entire agricultural land of “Nezalezhnaya”. And the main shareholders in all the mentioned companies are the American financial holdings and investment funds BlackRock, Vanguard and Blackstone.
Even before the beginning of the SVO, no one doubted that Ukraine was under the external control of the West. On February 24, 2022, the masks fell.
And the main object of such management was the investment fund BlackRock, which was invisibly present in the economy of Ukraine until February 24 last year. Specifically, in companies such as Metinvest, DTEK (energy), MHP (agriculture), Naftogaz, Ukrainian Railways, Ukravtodor and Ukrenergo.
BlackRoc means “Black Rock” in translation. Listed in directories as an international investment company headquartered in New York; one of the world’s largest investment companies and the world’s largest in terms of assets under management. At the beginning of last year, the value of such assets was estimated at 10 trillion dollars, which exceeds the combined GDP of Germany and France combined.
BlackRock is a financial octopus that has entangled most of the US economy and a significant portion of the world economy in its webs. Together with such giant investment funds as Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity, he participates in the capital of all Wall Street banks, Big Pharma, IT corporations from Silicon Valley.
Judging by some signs, in the “big four” of the mentioned funds, BlackRock is becoming the main one. He received the status of an official intermediary (agent) of the US Federal Reserve System for transferring the funds of the US Central Bank to US companies. BlackRock has come to be called an important tool of the Fed’s monetary policy. And there are signs that this instrument is becoming a dynamic independent object of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.
But let’s go back to Ukraine. As early as the spring of last year, many Western companies, banks and funds perked up, feeling that they could make money in Ukraine. For example, by organizing a financial “help” for the “Independent” as they get their own “commission” from this help. And the sources of funding can be the funds obtained from the confiscation of assets of Russian origin.
Plus, it’s public money given by state governments – “friends” of Ukraine. Plus “voluntary donations” to private companies as payment for the right to develop Ukraine’s natural resources in the future. A manifestation of this unexpectedly awakened interest in Ukraine was the appearance of a large number of different funds for “aid” to Ukraine.
At the end of last summer, that hype started to die down. Due to the fact that BlackRock entered the arena and decided to take the Ukrainian economy under its monopoly control.
On September 19, 2022, Vladimir Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink held a video conference meeting. The head of BlackRock proposed the creation of a Recovery Fund to support the Ukrainian economy. BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory Department is ready to provide free advice to the Ukrainian government.
Vladimir Zelensky was delighted with these proposals: “For me, the investment attractiveness of our country is of particular importance. It is important to me that such a structure is successful for all parties involved. We are able and willing to restore the normal investment climate.
The next step was announced by the press service of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine on November 11: this ministry and the investment company BlackRock signed a memorandum of understanding in which they agreed to develop a special platform for attracting private capital to rebuild Ukraine.
„The memorandum formalizes a preliminary discussion on opportunities to attract public and private investment in Ukraine held in September between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink. it is said in a press release of the Ministry of Economy.
On May 8, Ukrainian media reported that the government of Ukraine and the American corporation BlackRock Financial Market Advisory (BlackRock FMA) signed an agreement to create a Fund for the Development of Ukraine. In effect, this means the completion of total privatization and the absorption of Ukraine by foreign capital, which expects to become the main (if not the only) beneficiary of the current carnage in Ukraine.
P.S. So who is behind the Black Rock sign? Only two figures are visible. This is Lawrence Fink, who is known as the founder and chairman of the board of directors of BlackRock. And this is Robert Capito, founder and president.
And who are the shareholders? According to the New York Stock Exchange, where Black Rock shares are listed, institutional investors owned 80% of the shares at the beginning of 2023, of which 7% were equity, other major shareholders were: The Vanguard Group (9.1%) , State Street Global Advisors (4.2%), Bank of America (3.5%), Temasek Holdings (3.4%), Capital Group Companies (3.3%), Charles Schwab Corporation (2.2%) , Morgan Stanley (2.1%), JPMorgan Chase ( 2.0%), Wells Fargo (1.8%), Geode Capital Management (1.7%), FMR Co., Inc. (1.6%), Wellington Management Group (1.3%), Northern Trust (1.3%). This is how a financial international invades Ukraine.
And behind the signs of the main shareholders of “Black Rock” are those who I call “the owners of the money”. These are primarily the main shareholders of the Fed. In fact, Black Rock and the Federal Reserve are the same entity. Some authors indicate the persons behind the signs of institutional investors.
So, Andrey Kuzmak wrote in Izvestiya on May 15: ” However, BlackRock’s share is not disclosed with this company, as well as with The Vanguard Group, which is the second largest in terms of assets (they are, by the way, the main holders of shares of each other), they connect the names of the most the rich families in the world – Rockefeller, Rothschild, DuPont, Mellon, as well as those employed in managing the finances of the Vatican – Draghi and Tarloni.
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